Normally, most geeks could care less that a non-franchising film has begun production. However, when it is Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, based on a screenplay he and his brother Jonathan Nolan? Well….
In a Hollywood marketer’s dream press release, Paramount Pictures proudly announces, in association with Warner Brother Pictures, that production is underway today for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar. And like The Dark Knight sequels, it shall be shot in alternating 35mm and anamorphic IMAX photography.
Originally written by Jonathan Nolan with Steven Spielberg in mind to direct, the project is a science fiction mind-tease hypothesized from the writings of renowned theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who is consulting on the film. The mysterious puzzle box follows a group of scientists and explorers in Earth’s not too distant future who travail the furthest reaches of cosmos and stars through relativity-warping wormholes in space.
The feature boasts an expectedly stunning cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway, Academy Award nominated Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominated John Lithgow, Academy Award nominated Casey Affleck, Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn, Academy Award winner Michael Caine, as well as Bill Irwin, Topher Grace, Mackenzie Foy, Timothée Chalamet and Wes Bentley.
Did we mention the Academy Awards?
Also intriguingly, this will mark the first film in which Christopher Nolan has separated from Academy Award winning cinematographer Wally Pfister since The Following; Pfister is off working on his directorial debut, Transcendence with Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Rebecca Hall, which Christopher Nolan is also producing along with his collaborator and spouse, Emma Thomas. For Interstellar, the production team is bringing on Hoyte van Hoytema (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Fighter) to lens the project.
Interstellar takes off on November 7, 2014.